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Cable-Tie Ninja

Since I wasn't able to create an account on hardforum without it getting deleted I'll post this here. I drew up and had my coworker print a shroud for the black ridge + 12x15 combo. I'm not actually able to test it right now though since my zsa4 won't even ship until mid june. One of the possible problems regarding vibration is that I had to remove the rubber pads from the side of the fan that touches against the heatsink.

Cable-Tie Ninja

Can anyone confirm whether the ASRock Z390 Phantom’s VRM heatsink needs to be removed when using the Black Ridge with a 120mm slim fan? It’s extremely difficult to search for this information (niche within a niche within a niche).

SFF Lingo Aficionado

So is there any Z370/Z390 boards that could fit the Black Ridge + 120x15mm fan without modifications? I have the Gigabyte Z370N and the cooler only fits if I remove the VRM mos heatsink. Without the heatsink VRM temps easily shot up to >100C during rendering/simulation workloads and 115C on P95.

Cable-Tie Ninja

Average Stuffer

I thought I had replied here with my temps with the 3700x but perhaps it was another forum. I have the same blackridge cooler with 120mm fan and on complete stock, I maxed out at 87C on small FFTs Prime95. Turned on PBO and reduced PPT from 88W to 80W and the temps dropped to 82C with ~0.5% performance drop and is what I'm running at the moment. I want to do a slight undervolt of 0.05 - 0.1V next, but at the moment, the voltage control in BIOS on my Gigabyte b450 doesn't have any effect whatsoever.

Airflow Optimizer

I thought I had replied here with my temps with the 3700x but perhaps it was another forum. I have the same blackridge cooler with 120mm fan and on complete stock, I maxed out at 87C on small FFTs Prime95. Turned on PBO and reduced PPT from 88W to 80W and the temps dropped to 82C with ~0.5% performance drop and is what I'm running at the moment. I want to do a slight undervolt of 0.05 - 0.1V next, but at the moment, the voltage control in BIOS on my Gigabyte b450 doesn't have any effect whatsoever.

You could trying undervolting it with Ryzen Master. I've used it on the Asrock and Gigabyte B450 boards to manipulate settings that didn't seem to work in bios.
B450 bios' in general are functional but do need more work, that will continue to be the case until the X570's are in a state everyone is happy with.

I'd like to use HyperX Furys which are specced at 34.04 mm module height. (The thinking is, if the LPX happen to be 34mm, from the lowest point of the DDR4 connector edge, to the highest point of the heat spreader, then the HyperX Furys should be good to go as well, based on the pic above.)

Cable-Tie Ninja

I thought I had replied here with my temps with the 3700x but perhaps it was another forum. I have the same blackridge cooler with 120mm fan and on complete stock, I maxed out at 87C on small FFTs Prime95. Turned on PBO and reduced PPT from 88W to 80W and the temps dropped to 82C with ~0.5% performance drop and is what I'm running at the moment. I want to do a slight undervolt of 0.05 - 0.1V next, but at the moment, the voltage control in BIOS on my Gigabyte b450 doesn't have any effect whatsoever.

King of Cable Management

Anybody using vlp ram for a 2700x or similar CPU (just got 2700x to upgrade my 1600)? Wondering if it is worth it. I currently have hynix m-die (v5.39 Corsair lpx 3200 cl16). I bought the black ridge v2(but it has sat in the box for about 2 months since I wanted vlp ram... But unsure of decent ram for ryzen) currently have a c7 (aluminum, but pre-ordered the graphene version from OCUK) and a slim raijintek RGB 120mm fan. Want to find decent vlp ram for my ryzen, because I don't want to upgrade CPU and downgrade ram. I know of adata's purple sticks on AliExpress but those are like 2666 @cl19 (IIRC) which sounds like a decent downgrade for the cpu performance upgrade.... Please let me know.

Cable-Tie Ninja

Anybody using vlp ram for a 2700x or similar CPU (just got 2700x to upgrade my 1600)? Wondering if it is worth it. I currently have hynix m-die (v5.39 Corsair lpx 3200 cl16). I bought the black ridge v2(but it has sat in the box for about 2 months since I wanted vlp ram... But unsure of decent ram for ryzen) currently have a c7 (aluminum, but pre-ordered the graphene version from OCUK) and a slim raijintek RGB 120mm fan. Want to find decent vlp ram for my ryzen, because I don't want to upgrade CPU and downgrade ram. I know of adata's purple sticks on AliExpress but those are like 2666 @cl19 (IIRC) which sounds like a decent downgrade for the cpu performance upgrade.... Please let me know.